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This book provides both the first comprehensive description of the phonology and phonetics of Standard Mongolian and the first account in any language of the historical phonology of the Mongolian group of languages.

This work introduces the general features of Hungarian, and its major dialects. It examines the vowel and consonant systems, and Phonotactics. The authors describe the phonological processes that vowels, consonants, and syllables undergo and/or trigger.

The Norwegian language has undergone considerable change in the last 180 years, and in this book Gjert Kristoffersen considers the abundant evidence in order to provide us with an original analysis of the ways in which the sounds and meanings of competing languages may change and evolve.

Presents the study of the phonology of Standard Chinese. This book contains theoretical solutions to many problems in Chinese phonology, such as word length variation, word order, and the application of the third tone sandhi. It is intended for those with an interest in Chinese languages or phonology.

This is an account of the phonology and morphology of modern spoken Arabic, the first to be published in any language and based largely on the author's research. Dr Watson's approach is theoretically innovative and aware, but accessible to Arabic language specialists outside linguistics. Broad in coverage, this is an important and pioneering book.

In this work, the authors provide a description of the phonological system of Portuguese, comparing the main phenomena of the two most widely extended varieties of the language - European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese - in the light of 1990s phonological theories.

Now available as a paperback edition, this book is the first comprehensive phonological description of Dutch. Booij's analysis engages a number of current issues in phonological theory, and particular attention is paid to the relation between morphology, syntax, and prosodic structure at word- and at sentence-level.

This book provides thorough descriptive and atheoretical coverage of the full range of phonological phenomena of Chichewa, a Malawian Bantu language. It covers topics such as vowel harmony, nasal place assimilation, postnasal laryngeal alternations, tonal phenomena, prosodic morphology, and the phonology-syntax interface.

The first comprehensive account of Welsh phonology opens with a concise history of the language and its relation to the other Celtic languages. Six chapters then explore its sound system, including the phonetic background, syllables, feet, phonotactics, and stress, and the characteristics of the dialects.

This book presents a comprehensive account of the phonology of Swedish, describes its history, segmental phonology, lower prosodic phonology, stress and tone, morphology-phonology interactions, higher prosodic phonology, and intonation, Its approach is data-oriented and, insofar as possible, theory-neutral.

In the most complete phonology of Contemporary Standard Polish ever published Edmund Gussmann presents a wide range of data, much drawn from his own research and all presented in a clear, accessible manner. This important book will interest all scholars and advanced students of Polish and Slavic phonology.

This is the most comprehensive account of Catalan phonology ever published. Approaching the subject a pragmatic version of orthodox Optimality Theory it describes the Spanish and French dialects of Catalan and the social and stylistic variations within them. This is likely to be the standard account of its subject for many years.

This book presents a comprehensive, contrastive account of the phonological structures and characteristics of Icelandic and Faroese. It is written for Nordic linguists and theoretical phonologists interested in what the languages reveal about phonological structure and change and the relation between morphology, phonology, and phonetics.

This book is the fullest account of the phonology of Japanese and its major dialects ever published. It presents original analyses of every aspect of the Japanese sound system, including its segment inventory, prosodic units, mora and syllable, prosody, and accent. Its clear presentation will appeal to phonologists throughout the world.

This is the most complete, up-to-date description of the phonology of German presently available. It applies recent models of phonological theory, laying particular emphasis on the interaction of morphology and phonology. Now in a new paperback edition, it focuses on the present-day standard language, including discussions of other variants and registers.

This book provides an overview of the phonology of Italian. It covers the different levels of analysis from individual sounds up to the phrasal level. It focuses on the most widely dispersed features of the language reflecting its significant regional and social variation and its most prominent regionally restricted patterns.

A full phonological description of the Slovak language and an investigation of recent developments in phonological theory, this study explains new theories and illustrates them by application to a large body of data.

This text offers an approach to English phonology which focuses on the prosody of the language and does so from an optimality-theoretic (OT) perspective. The focus is on surface distributional regularities and the results presented are based on searches through various computerized lexicons.

An account of the phonology of Danish language. This book gives an analysis of the sound patterns of Danish and examines the relations between its speech, sounds, and grammar. The author develops models for the analysis of phonology and morphology-phonology interactions, and shows how these may be applied to Danish and to other languages.

'The Phonology of Armenian' presents a contemporary linguistic treatment of Armenian, an Indo-European language with distinct dialects ranging from Poland to India, and a rich literary history dating from the fourth-century translation of the Bible into Classical Armenian.

Kimatuumbi is a Bantu language spoken in Tanzania. Its two most interesting phonological properties are vowel length and tone, and it provides data which are crucial for resolving certain questions in contemporary phonological theory. This book is the first detailed modern study of the language.